Sailing tech

Is it really that hard?

With 2017 technology, you’d think it wouldn’t be that difficult to produce a safe automated system for trains running in a controlled environment. Good grief, I think I could cobble together a bunch of IoT sensors and do the job for <$1000/car easy. https://wtop.com/tracking-metro-24-7/2017/12/metro-acknowledges-smoother-rides-better-dont-expect-soon/

Testament to IT Waste

While trying to clean up some office wiring I grabbed a new spare 4-port Gigabit hub and discovered that it was missing its dongle power brick. That’s not the first time I’ve received an electronic device missing its power supply and figured I might be able to find one as it needs 5v and 0.6A. […]

Acronym heaven/hell

If you’re truly a techie, you’ll have no problem reading and understanding this one… FB recently celebrated it’s 10yr anniversary, which AFIUI puts gen Z and younger AAK. Mark Z. went all AAAMOF in an interview stating that FB is for persons of any ASL instead of being honest and simply saying ATAB, but I’ve […]